To each man of the Roman plebs I paid three hundred sesterces in accordance with the last will of my father;[69] and in my own name, when consul for the fifth time, I gave four hundred sesterces from the spoils of the wars;[70] again, moreover, in my tenth consulship I gave from my own estate four hundred sesterces to each man by way of congiarium;[71] and in my eleventh consulship I twelve times made distributions of food, buying grain at my own expense;[72] and in the twelfth year of my tribunitial power I three times gave four hundred sesterces to each man.[73] These my donations have never been made to less than two hundred and fifty thousand men.[74] In my twelfth consulship and the eighteenth year of my tribunitial power I gave to three hundred and twenty thousand of the city plebs sixty denarii apiece.[75] In the colonies of my soldiers, when consul for the fifth time, I gave to each man a thousand sesterces from the spoils; about a hundred and twenty thousand men in the colonies received that triumphal donation.[76] When consul for the thirteenth time I gave sixty denarii to the plebs who were at that time receiving public grain; these men were a little more than two hundred thousand in number.[77] [78]
c. 16.
For the lands which in my fourth consulship, and afterwards in the consulship of Marcus Crassus and Cnæus Lentulus, the augur, I assigned to soldiers, I paid money to the municipia. The sum which I paid for Italian farms was about six hundred million sesterces, and that for lands in the provinces was about two hundred and sixty millions.[79] Of all those who have established colonies of soldiers in Italy or in the provinces I am the first and only one within the memory of my age, to do this. And afterward in the consulship of Tiberius Nero and Cnæus Piso, and also in that of Gaius Antistius and Decimus Lælius, and in that of Gaius Calvisius and Lucius Pasienus, and in that of Lucius Lentulus and Marcus Messala, and in that of Lucius Caninius and Quintus Fabricius, I gave gratuities in money to the soldiers whom I sent back to their municipia at the expiration of their terms of service, and for this purpose I freely spent four hundred million sesterces.[80]
c. 17.
Four times I have aided the public treasury from my own means, to such extent that I have furnished to those in charge of the treasury one hundred and fifty million sesterces.[81] And in the consulship of Marcus Lepidus and Lucius Arruntius I paid into the military treasury which was established by my advice that from it gratuities might be given to soldiers who had served a term of twenty or more years, one hundred and seventy million sesterces from my own estate.[82]
c. 18.
Beginning with that year in which Cnæus and Publius Lentulus were consuls, when the imposts failed, I furnished aid sometimes to a hundred thousand men, and sometimes to more, by supplying grain or money for the tribute from my own land and property.[83]
c. 19.
I constructed[84] the Curia,[85] and the Chalcidicum adjacent thereto,[86] the temple of Apollo on the Palatine, with its porticoes,[87] the temple of the divine Julius,[88] the Lupercal,[89] the portico to the Circus of Flaminius, which I allowed to bear the name, Portico Octavia, from his name who constructed the earlier one in the same place;[90] the Pulvinar at the Circus Maximus,[91] the temples of Jupiter the Vanquisher[92] and Jupiter the Thunderer, on the Capitol,[93] the temple of Quirinus,[94] the temples of Minerva and Juno Regina and of Jupiter Libertas, on the Aventine,[95] the temple of the Lares on the highest point of the Via Sacra,[96] the temple of the divine Penates on the Velian hill,[97] the temple of Youth,[98] and the temple of the Great Mother on the Palatine.[99]